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[Wargroove] The Advance Wars game we've waited 10 years for!
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Welcome to the Wargroove thread! Here we will discuss the game, strategies, answer questions, give help, and share our own map/campaign codes. So let's get started!
What is Wargroove?
Wargroove is a spiritual successor to the hit Nintendo franchise, Advance Wars. Well, it's like if AW was still being made today. Lots of new options, Commanders, and other fun mechanics and gameplay changes. At it's heart, you control and create troops to do battle in a multitude of game modes.
Game modes you say?
That's right! The game features a full campaign, online multiplayer, and co-op play. You can also create your own maps and campaigns with fully customized rules!
Wait, my own campaign?!
That's right! Show off your game design and story writing skills by making your own maps and story. The editor is very robust, in fact it's the exact same one's the designers used for the main campaign. We'll be using this thread to share our codes with each other. It should be noted that Nintendo Switch owners do not need the paid online service to share/input codes, although they will need the service to do the multiplayer or co-op stuff.
BUT EVEN BETTER! The game features cross-platform play, so you can battle it out on the Switch, PC, or Xbox One. Unfortunately, Sony still doesn't want to play with others, so PS4 owners won't get to play in the same playground as Switch, PC, XB1 owners.
Yeah, yeah, but what's it look like?!
Glorious pixel art designs merged with modern sensibilities. In fact, just see for yourself....
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Although, I think I actually kinda liked Advance Wars cartoon military better than I do Wargroove's generic fantasy. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Pssst: don't forget to hold B to make turns go faster. You can also disable combat animations altogether or set it to only show during your turn.
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Gonna get this on Steam.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
I love how they run away instead of dying, and if you look closely you can see them sprint back across the area they attacked from.
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Battle pups best pups
Agreed, though this is really well done stylistically and in terms of animation.
Does WarGroove have that? I remember that feeling really important somehow to strategizing.
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They did a good job
The only small thing that they should change is to move the End Turn button from the top of the menu to the bottom. I've already accidentally lost a turn by clicking too fast on an empty tile.
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LMAO I was thinking the same thing after that mission...
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Map editor.
Cutscene editor.
This is a recent one but it's just a short overview.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
I've managed to make my own rudimentary map with some basic cut-scenes and dialogues, so I might be able to answer some, but probably not all, questions you may have. Although I did have a lot of help from that Beginner's Guide up there.
A good story will be nice too
I am really digging the aesthetics so far
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
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And while they fight he just does dog things like roll on his back or chase his tail. So far the most useful Co power has been defense crystal since it gives you a whopping 10 turns of an aoe defense boost. Very useful for advanced positions and chokepoints.
I'm really shitty at these games since I do exactly what you're saying not to do (just go in and do shit and figure it out as I go). It's still pretty fun though!
So do I as soon as plan a, b and c eventually disintegrate ... turn 3 . But yeah by all means do whatever is fun for you , the only time it matters is when you are trying to s rank something. Fucking s ranking awds was insanely hard for me.
I always win via CO defeat.
Here's another thing that's kind of weird, when playing vs CPU's in local co-op (basically skirmish mode) with fog of war on the game will also conceal your own allies movements from you.
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Ughh in campaign the enemy CO always runs away for me , end up having to take their hq. Speaking of just unlocked Ragna. Her sprite work is awesome and evil captain america is cool but man her portrait is dumb. Also didnt even get to use her co power level was over before it charged.
Was actually coming here to talk about it. I just finished it right now , after the second attempt. Reinforcements stop coming after turn 15 ish . Also I just realized Caesars special is eagles from advance wars he gives all surrounding units an extra turn , I realized this at the end of the game when I was about to win , never used it before . I feel stupid.
So what worked for me was:
A) Economy , grab every building you can , you can capture everything before ever fighting if you use Caesar and alchemists wisely.
b) You will need alchemists for anti air but make sure you grab one or two trebuchets when you can , parking them behind walls and taking pot shots at units help immensely .
c) Caesar is going to have to fight alone for long stretches of time but make sure he is always in range of resupply or has an avenue he can run away to a healer.
Other then that I lost a LOT of units and still got S rank so dont worry about that. Its just a real real long level.
Pretty much what EspantaPajaro says.
2. Another quirk of the AI is its tendency to focus on taking villages, even on maps where it has no barracks. This makes a certain sort of sense, because it's depriving you of gold and funding its alchemists. But Caesar and a swordsman held the entire south flank by themselves for a while simply by keeping that south-central village captured, so that the enemy would waste its pikemen tearing it down again. Use a low-health swordsman to capture a village, the AI will use a full-strength pikeman to recapture it. The action economy on an exchange like that is bananas.
3. Don't forget that Caesar can capture villages. He's a Commander unit, not a Dog unit.
4. Alchemists simply delete harpies in most match-ups, even if you can't arrange superior defense, critical hits, etc. I didn't build a ballista until the last act of the mission, and then only because I fucked up and left one of my key alchemists to die to a giant, so I needed more anti-air coverage.
5. In general, don't kill things that are already at low health until absolutely necessary. A 10% battledog nipping at your trebuchet does minimal damage, while blocking the square that a harpy could be using to destroy that same trebuchet. Clog the enemy's paths with their own wounded.
EDIT: But yes, this mission was fucking intense.
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I ran the wagon down the right side of the map, skipping all the villages, and grabbed the southeastern barracks. Meanwhile my archers slowly picked up the neutral villages on my northern peninsula. I didn't build any more units up north, just swooped the two starting archers through villages and towards the bridge, positioning them so that they could pincushion anything that tried to cross it.
Once I had the southeastern barracks, I started pumping out alchemists down there and capturing more villages, then trebuchets whenever I could afford them, and my god did that strat steamroll Caesar's AI. Got the S-rank, and after the first ~3 turns never felt like I lost the upper hand.
It cant be that its been 10 years...
no...
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I'm not gonna lie I'm probably gonna get that Caesar pin.
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